Edward Ullendorff

Edward Ullendorff FBA (25 January 1920 – 6 March 2011) was a British scholar of Semitic languages and Ethiopian studies. Quotes Their cult embodies a curious mixture of pagan-Judaic-Christian beliefs and ceremonies, but the Falashas are neither the only non-Christian and unconverted tribe nor the only sector of the Ethiopian population that has clung to so strange a religious amalgam. . . . The Falashas do not know of any religious prescriptions outside the Pentateuch; Mishnah and Talmud are unknown to them. They have no knowledge of Hebrew, and the language of their prayers is Ge'ez . . . The Sabbath is observed with considerable strictness, and the prescriptions regarding ritual cleanness are practised with great zeal . . . In common with their monophysite neighbours the Falashas carry out circumcision on boys and excision (a kind of clitoridectomy) on girls. The Ethiopians: An Introduction to Country and People (London: Oxford University Press, 1960), ch. 5, pp. 110-11 External links Category:1920 births Category:2011 deaths Category:Academics from the United Kingdom Category:Non-fiction authors from the United Kingdom Category:Hebrew University alumni Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:University of St Andrews faculty Category:University of Manchester faculty Category:Immigrants to the United Kingdom Category:Jews from the United Kingdom Category:People from Berlin